people
wars
religion
laws/compacts
royals
100

Daughter of chief powhatan, "saved" captain John Smith and married John Rolfe

Pocahontas 

100

armed conflict between royalists and parliamentarians, resulting in the victory of pro-parliament forces and the execution of Charles I

English Civil War

100

English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds. Some of the most devout believed that only "visible saints" should be admitted to church membership

Puritans 

100

first formal statute governing the treatment of slaves which provided  for harsh punishments against offending slaves but lacked penalties for the mistreatment of slaves by  masters. similar statues were adopted by Southern plantation societies on the North American mainland in the 17th and 18th centuries

Barbados Slave Code

100
Dutch born monarch and English born wife, daughter of King James II, installed to the British throne during the Glorious Revolution of 1689. They took control over the American colonies, inaugurating a period of "salutary neglect" that lasted until the French and Indian War

William III and Mary II

200

English colonist whos marriage to Pocahontas in 1614 sealed the peace of the First Anglo-Powhatan war

John Rolfe


200

series of clashes between english settlers and Pequot Indians in the Connecticut River valley. ended  in the slaughter of the Pequots by the Puritans and their Narragansett Indian allies.

Pequot War

200

small group of Puritans who sought to break away away entirely from the church of England; after initially settling in Holland, a number of them made their way to plymouth bay, massachusetts in 1620

Separatists 

200

agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth, signed aboard the Mayflower. Created a foundation for self-government in the colony

Mayflower Compact

200

Assumed the throne with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 . Sought to establish firm control over the colonies, ending the period of relative independence on the American mainland

Charles II

300
Puritan general who helped lead parliamentary forces during the English Civil War and ruled England as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658.

Oliver Cromwell

300

Began with an Indian attack on Newbern, North Carolina. After the Tuscaroras were defeated, Indian survivors migrated northward eventually joining the Iroquois Confederacy as its sixth nation

Tuscarora War

300

Intense religious experience that confirmed an individual's place among the "elect" or the "visible saints." Calvinists who experienced this were than expected to lead sanctified lives to demonstrate their salvation

conversion 
300

series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulate colonial shipping; the acts provided that only England ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports, and that all goods destined for the colonies would first pass through England

Navigation Laws

300

Much loathed administrator of the Dominion of New England, which was created 1686 to strengthen imperial control over the New England colonies; established strict control doing away with town meetings and popular assemblies and taxing colonists without their consent; when word of the Glorious Revolution in England reached the colonists they promptly dispatched him back to England

Sir Edmond Andros 

400
French Protestant reformer whos teachings formed the theological basis for New England Puritans, Scottish Presbyterians, French Huguenots, and members of the Dutch reformed church. Believed God predestined select individuals for salvation 

John Calvin

400

series of assaults by Metacom, King Phillip, on English settlements in New England. The attacks slowed the westward migration of New England settlers for several decades

King Philip's (Metcacoms) War 

400
Calvinist doctrine that has foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned. 

predestination 

400

unofficial policy of relaxed control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement of Navigation Laws. Lasted from the Glorious Revolution to the end of the French and and Indian war in 1763.

Salutary neglect

400

wampanoag chief who led a brutal campaign against puritan settlements in New England between 1675 and 1676; eventually captured and killed and his wife and son were sold into slavery which halted England's westward expansion for several decades

Metacom (King Philip)

500
Antinomian religious dissenter brought to trial for heresy in MA Bay after arguing she need not follow wither God's laws or man's claiming direct revelation from God. banished from the Puritan colony she moved to RI and later NY where her and her family were killed by Indians 

Anne Hutchinson


500

Relatively peaceful overthrow of the unpopular Catholic monarch, James II, replacing him with Dutch-born William II and Mary, daughter of James II. William and Mary accepted increased parliamentary oversight and new limits on Monarchial authority 

Glorious revolution

500

dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans; believed in predestination

calvinism 

500

also known as sumptuary laws, they are designed to restrict personal behaviors accord with a strict code of morality. passed across the colonies, particularly in Puritan New England and Quaker Pennsylvania 

blue laws

500

First governor of MA Bay colony; able administrator and devout Puritan; helped ensure the prosperity of the newly established colony and enforce Puritan orthodoxy, taking a hard line against religious dissenters like Anne Hutchinson

John Winthrop

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